Jamie’s Italian Libertà
Lager style
Bottle from
Jamie’s Italian Greenwitch UK
Jamie Oliver has
a special space in my heart. We have once prepared asparagus with oranges per
his recipe, and this was the first time in my life I liked asparagus.
A Point for Jamie.
However, now,
thanks to my wife and friends I have learned that Jamie has become a brewer.
Why not, brewing is a kind of cooking and I haven’t seen anything wrong in it.
Bit sadly, the
beer is brewed by Freedom brewery in the UK, and there is no information about
Jamie’s involvement in the process.
Libertà pours
nice, golden with small head. Aroma is rather mildly intensive and hard to
define (maybe bit of sweet and cereal). First sip and…
It is clearly
sweet. Not much, but clearly sweet, possibly honey… Honey and cereal aroma,
medium carbonation. Brewery obviously saved on hops and the bitterness is very
hard to detect. All together this is very drinkable beer, even if clearly not a
world class one.
Now for the
explanation – I rarely read the label of the beer before tasting. I don’t like
to be biased. It is much more interesting to smell and taste first and read the
label later.
So, I read the
label and relaxed a bit. The beer is indeed brewed with an addition of acacia honey.
This explains a lot.
After all that I
have mixed feelings.
I was hoping on Jamie
doing a beer – not clear if it is there.
I was hoping for
a beer that would be a bit out of the box (like Jamie’s kitchen) – this is
there.
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